akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Sat Jan 25 19:41:15 UTC 2020

Off-peak hours are on-peak somewhere else in the world.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:37 PM Darin Steffl <darin.steffl at mnwifi.com>
wrote:

> Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak
> hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's
> networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to
> release such a large patch during awake hours.
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:08 PM Brandon Jackson via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> wrote:
>
>> "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames
>> outage on smash-hit video game rush
>> This is Windstream, going dark..."
>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/
>>
>> Apparently not everyone came out unscathed.
>>
>> ----------------------------------
>> Brandon Jackson
>> bjackson at napshome.net
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp
>>> servers yesterday !?  starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting
>>> several hours ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Aaron
>>>
>>
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